Gill Kirk's Glitter Knickers: words that sparkle

12/06/2026

When the big swears come unbidden

Got a bit of a shock when I opened Facebook this morning. Saw this.... It's a cutting from The Guardian Guide......

Got a bit of a shock when I opened Facebook this morning. Saw this…. It’s a cutting from The Guardian Guide…

07/06/2026

Let those flowering weeds grow. It makes the bees very happy.

03/06/2026

Tears, growth and bastard things that carry on regardless

Disappointment’s bitter slap really took me by surprise…

18/05/2026

17/05/2026

FOLK = HORROR

What’s a freak? It’s anyone or anything worth talking about, and peering at, for its exposed so-called ‘weirdness’. Those best friends in Central Perk cafe are freaks (and that’s before the Meat Trifle). That Lear bloke who cast out his loving youngest daughter for not being a toady. Dracula, well - obviously. Madame Bovary - a monster, and delicious. Horror doesn’t have the monopoly on freaks and that, friends, is very helpful indeed. ...

What’s a freak? It’s anyone or anything worth talking about, and peering at, for its exposed so-called ‘weirdness’. Those best friends in Central Perk cafe are freaks (and that’s before the Meat Tr…

15/05/2026

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06/05/2026

Place and space to write

I’m sitting on a late night train out of Bristol – my other-home since I moved to Bath from London in the economically adventurous summer of 2007. The plan was to be here for just one year, t…

30/04/2026

Writers are all about understanding humans. But how can we do that?

….and if you do this, you are paying heed to that gorgeous, complex, frustrating-as-hell, magnificent universe that is you. That’s all.

26/04/2026

A mind-bending short story, published here for the first time. Enjoy it. Or don’t - both are possible ;-)

“ONE TIME, IT WENT LIKE THIS. “Time of death, twelve twenty-three.” He looks again at the head wound. Why can’t he make it make sense? He did not, could not, he still cannot find that bloody bullet…